Transparency International Australia (TI Australia) is pleased to provide the attached submission to the Statutory Review of the Crimes Act Legislation Amendment (Combating Foreign Bribery) Act 2024.
TI Australia’s submission focuses on the following five key priority areas:

1. Prohibiting small facilitation payments
2. Providing legal certainty through a formal suspension and debarment scheme
3. Introducing an appropriate model for non-trial resolutions in Australia
4. Ensuring greater transparency of foreign bribery enforcement action
5. Enabling compensation to victims of foreign bribery overseas.

This submission is based on TI Australia’s knowledge and experience as Australia’s leading anti-corruption NGO. It draws input from our membership, TI’s global secretariat, case studies and benchmarking other jurisdictions, and is based on previous submissions.